"Pleased" would be an understatement ;)
'Brad's White' aka 'FlyboyFl White'
Equilibrium
Sep 10, 2007
:=D
Okay, here it is December, almost Christmas... all of my plummies from Clare still have their leaves and are doing great.. they are inside one of the spare rooms next to the window. I don't expect flowers yet, but, just wanted to know if it is alright to let them keep on growing or do we HAVE to let them go dormant?
Thank you again Clare..
A.
Hi Antoinette! So glad to hear that they are doing great! It sounds like they are very happy with their current situation. You absolutely do not have to let them go dormant. In fact, during a mild winter at my house, they keep their leaves all year outside. Most of mine still have their leaves in the yard.
If you add some overhead lighting to increase the light intensity and extend the daylight, you will make them even more happy and might even see some inflo's develop now for spring bloom. Just don't let them get too dry or too wet. The soil should remain warm at all times. Water when the soil looks dry. If you withhold water and the temps are cool, they might drop their leaves and go dormant anyway, but regular light watering and overhead lighting and warm temps will keep them from going dormant if you want to keep them growing;-)
Thanks Clare!
I'm really happy with how they look.
I've been trying for a couple of years with plumies, even grew several from seed, but when we moved, I gave over 75 plants away, 50 were from Ebay purchases and were getting inflos. God, I hope I get to see a flower someday.
Ah, I feel your pain. We are renters here and will have to move someday. I'll be moving at least a couple hundred plants when we do. That won't be fun. You will see flowers next season. I promise;-)
Spring is starting to spring.
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Hi Brad! How are you? I hope doing well. That is so great that you have flowers already! You are way ahead of us here on the West Coast. Thanks for posting this pic!
Hope you're well, Clare.
Yes, it's warm -- but bone-dry.
Be well
Brad
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Hi Brad! Good to see your photos! Mine are putting out leaves pretty quickly, but no blooms yet! They did fine out in my garden over the winter. (Though we really didn't have much of a winter this year! Mostly warm temps!)
S'funny.
Thereas Wilder started with inflos. This started with leaves. Who knows?
How far north are you? It's warm here.
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I am near Vero Beach on the east coast (about 60-70 miles south of Kennedy Space Center). Last year I got blooms on my one Theresa Wilder, but no blooms on the white blooming ones from you. I am sure they will bloom this year for sure!
Good luck,
That white one is real prolific.
Be well
: )
Thanks, Brad! How big do the white blooming plumerias get? Or rather I should ask how big do you let them get before you prune them back?
I started with an eighteen inch chunk -- and stuck it in the ground -- and voila.
I've had to hack the original back every year -- and have another half-dozen around the yard. It grows like wild.
: )
Can someone send the rain!
Bone dry is a good description for our weather!
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Send over to me too, please! Dry as can be here! I don't have an irrigation system in my yard, so I am out there almost every day hand watering my garden beds and other plants! And this is only MAY! Ack!!!! I'm afraid to see what temps we have this summer. And having warm Atlantic Ocean water makes me nervous. Isn't it true that hurricanes form best in warm water?
That's Florida for you ........................
Water, water everywhere; and not a drop to use for irrigation.
I guess reverse osmosis is going to be the answer -- if we can get cheap power. Tampa is already doing it.
: )
The answer for all of the deep south states is Desalination plants to combat fires and water shortages..
Tampa has it already maybe soon the rest of the state will follow!
Get ready Hetty Wed-Fri the temps will be in the 90's for parts of South Florida.
OUCH!
This message was edited May 5, 2008 3:19 AM
Any of you DGers old enough to remember when the only air conditioning in a car were the windows and the little "defroster" fan that sat on the front dash board?
Or when the movies were "air cooled." Which meant that they had cakes of ice with fans blowing air off them.
Or when the poor old ice man had to double-up on his deliveries. Remember the cards that you had to twist around in your front window to show whether you wanted a ten cent or fifteen cent chunk delivered. (I think it went up to a quarter size -- but who could afford that?)
Most of us were poor -- but so was everyone else, so who noticed?
Who still says. "Those were the good old days"?
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Oh, yes, I do remember. I've lived in SoCal all my life and never had a/c until last week.
I also remember the dear ice man breaking off chunks for us kids when it was hot in the summer - now those were good days!
Did'ja know that up there (where I came from) in New England, they cut the ice out of the ponds each winter and stored it in the "ice house" --insulated in tons of hay? Those were the days!
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Days long gone, the milk man delivering milk and ice cream to your door. Never had a key to your house. Never heard of AC. I'm from Madison Ct. the ice building still stands. And you can still catch snapper blues behind it lol
Milk man, bread man, fish man, ice cream, ice...it was a fun life for kids watching all these things arrive. We were so easily pleased in those days! lol
You can keep those memories...
The only thing i miss is the garbage men going in my
backyard and grabbing my garbage.Now if i don't put
the garbage can in the right spot on the street they won't take it.
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c'mon dana~
The milk man never delivered ice cream to our house. But I remember the winter mornings when the cream in the un-pasteurized milk was sticking up in the air.
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They did deliver ice cream my brother would make the order sheet. It would be gone before before anyone knew it. Boxes were galvanized and insulated. Father would hit the roof when the bill came for all this ice cream he never saw a sniff of.To be a kid again lol
WOW.
We never had a "milk" box. The stuff was just left at the front door. The milkman had a horse that knew the rouite as well as did he, and it followed along with the wagon. (In the winter it was a sleigh -- since the roads were never plowed -- only rollled.)
The only "box" we had was a container hanging outside the kitchen window -- for perishable food in the winter.
Oh for the old days.
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The only memory i like to see back is when gas was under a buck!
AMEN to that wish!!!
My Greatgrandfather was a Iceman.He and grandfather and Great Uncles cut ice from the pond all winter and most of the spring and store it in the ice barn and cover with saw dust and straw.In the summer the part of the barn that was empty they would put down 3 alleys and had a bowling alley.
Yes those milk boxes really bring back the memories.That's where alot of people would hide the house keys,but most didn't lock the house.
Iopaka under a dollar how about the gas stations that gave you glasses cups all kind of stuff to get your business.
You guys are pretty young.
When I first started driving, gas was eight gallons for a dollar at the no-name gas stations. (The problem was scratching together that buck from among your buddies.) These stations were near the gas storage tanks in East Boston -- where the tankers unloaded. The name stations were fifteen cents a gallon. And they washed your windshield and checked your oil -- and said "Thank you." Then Ethyl was the big gas additive -- it was "no knock."
The only time we used the skeleton key for the front door was when we went away for a couple of days. Then it was under the front door mat.
I don't ever remember carrying a key in my pocket.
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I pulled into a gas station recently
It was 'full serve' only
It was raining
He didnt want to check the fluids or anything
He insisted 'full service' meant 'pumping' only
How times have changed.... :(
Speaking of Brad's white.s...have 2 leafing out now...yipeee
Go gettem!
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This is one of the cuttings, today.
:)
And, a new inflorescence.
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